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  1. On 15/03/2024 at 12:44, Cosmo Valdemar said:

    This deserves to be seen in full, it's just a symphony of perfection. 

     

     

    "Grab me guitar please."

    If only you there was a way to translate what the dog was chipping in with. Probably a helpful comment like, “don’t forget to retune it”, or “I told you to get a chair with five casters, much more stable”.

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  2. 6 hours ago, Huge Hands said:

     

    I agree - I'm pretty sure I saw an interview with Nile a few years ago where he said it was Bernard who taught him to use the unique chord patterns on the guitar, so assume Bernard had some guitar and harmony knowledge too?


    Have to disagree on the strings front. I saw a great interview with Nile on, I think, a Top Ten of Disco (hosted by Huggy Bear I think!) programme which I recall very clearly as I watched it over and over again.
     

    Nile said it was in an interview with both of them for Guitar Player magazine where: ‘the interviewer asked “Bernard, you have that fantastic sound - like, what kind of strings do you use?”, to which Bernard replied “I dunno? What kind of strings come on a Stingray?” - he hadn’t changed the strings since he bought, he didn’t even care what they were!’.

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  3. 4 hours ago, AndyTheBassBison said:

    There's a version of Everybody Dance from the same show - very nice!

     

     

    Fantastic - never seen a live version of Everybody Dance with Bernard showing off his chucking technique before. There it is, at 08:00, in all its glory!

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  4. I think it’s a P bass on the first album (i.e. for Dance, Dance, Dance and Everbody Dance) and then his 1978 Stingray for everything else. And with the unchanged halfwound strings it came with, for every session. I read that he used the P bass and BC Rich for live work because he thought they looked better, and Marcus Miller I think confirmed this when he asked Bernard how he got his tone on the records using (he wrongly assumed) the BC Rich he’d seen him playing live.  

  5. Interesting to hear Le Freak  played on something other than a Stingray by the great man himself. Definitely one of those players where it’s all in the fingers…(although, is it my ears or is his bass a bit flat?)

     

     

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  6. Here’s how it was done in the 80s. Mullet? Check. Short shorts (with integral underpant lining)? Check.  Risk assessment and safe system of work? Hmmm.  There are some gloves though (and a pair of sandals). 
     

    Interesting technique at the 8min mark…

     

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  7. Liked the fact that Duff still essentially uses the same £500 bass he grabbed off the wall in LA with his advance from Appetite for Destruction (albeit this is one of the copies that the custom shop made for him). Shame I can’t here much of it through the cr@p TV speakers!

  8. 8 minutes ago, jonno1981 said:

    Dave’s voice isn’t quite what it used to be. He’s got the charisma to carry it off though. I wonder what Nate is playing through. Not an ashdown, some kind of 9x10 cab.

    I was looking at the cab and thought I was seeing things and had forgotten how to count!

     

    Currently watching Skrillex, Fred Again and something or other. Strangely compelling, no idea what genre it is…even if it does look like two blokes from

    an IT helpdesk having some kind of fit.

  9. 2 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

    Just listening to Paul Gambaccini doing Pick of The Pops from 1982. Great years for the bass guitar, very prominent in the mix and great bass lines too.

    I love Pick of the Pops on a Saturday afternoon. My favourite years alway seem to be between 1976 and 1983. A good selection of songs this week from 82, and nice bass playing. And this:

     

     

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  10. 1 hour ago, Adey said:

    I think you are all mixing this up. It's actually the Modgold Shirleyator....

     

    .... if you assemble it that way at least.....

    Or a Goldator Sherlymod if you string it with flatwounds and wire the pick ups so they’re out of phase. 

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